Docsity
Docsity

Prepare for your exams
Prepare for your exams

Study with the several resources on Docsity


Earn points to download
Earn points to download

Earn points by helping other students or get them with a premium plan


Guidelines and tips
Guidelines and tips

Communication Criticism Test 2A | COMM - The Rhetorical Tradition, Quizzes of Rhetoric

Class: COMM - The Rhetorical Tradition; Subject: Communication; University: Concordia University; Term: Forever 1989;

Typology: Quizzes

2014/2015

Uploaded on 10/20/2015

bballweston
bballweston 🇨🇦

3 documents

1 / 5

Toggle sidebar

This page cannot be seen from the preview

Don't miss anything!

bg1
TERM 1
An attitude of suspicion
DEFINITION 1
The perspective adopted by critical studies scholars in which
they assume that things are often other than what they
seem to be.
TERM 2
The work of a critic
DEFINITION 2
To show how it is that people are empowered or
disempowered by the meanings of various texts.
TERM 3
Qualitative research
DEFINITION 3
More concerned with qualities than quantities, with meanings
more than numbers.
TERM 4
Rhetorical criticism
DEFINITION 4
An exercise in showing the influences exerted by signs
through their meanings.
TERM 5
Economic
claass
DEFINITION 5
A major demographic category that has preoccupied scholars
in critical studies.
pf3
pf4
pf5

Partial preview of the text

Download Communication Criticism Test 2A | COMM - The Rhetorical Tradition and more Quizzes Rhetoric in PDF only on Docsity!

An attitude of suspicion

The perspective adopted by critical studies scholars in which

they assume that things are often other than what they

seem to be.

TERM 2

The work of a critic

DEFINITION 2

To show how it is that people are empowered or

disempowered by the meanings of various texts.

TERM 3

Qualitative research

DEFINITION 3

More concerned with qualities than quantities, with meanings

more than numbers.

TERM 4

Rhetorical criticism

DEFINITION 4

An exercise in showing the influences exerted by signs

through their meanings.

TERM 5

Economic

claass

DEFINITION 5

A major demographic category that has preoccupied scholars

in critical studies.

Metonymy

A form of popular culture that allows people to participate in

the management of public issues; usually in the form of

stories or narratives.

TERM 7

A text

DEFINITION 7

A set of signs that work together toward the same influences,

which means toward the same meanings

TERM 8

Quantitative research

DEFINITION 8

Uses surveys and experimental manipulation of variables to

express findings in numbers.

TERM 9

Critical studies

DEFINITION 9

A general approach to scholarship that studies the ways in

which popular culture influences people.

TERM 10

Meanings

DEFINITION 10

That which motivates or drives texts to influence people to

think and act in certain ways.

Type of Text

Discrete to Diffuse

TERM 17

Sources of Meanings

DEFINITION 17

Broad to Narrow

TERM 18

Choice of Context

DEFINITION 18

Original to New

TERM 19

Text/Context

DEFINITION 19

Reactive to Proactive

TERM 20

From Surface to Deep Reading

DEFINITION 20

Direct Tactics; Implied Strategies (Association, Implication,

Conflict or Absence); Structures (through Narrative and

Subject Positions)